Perde 5
[Textpart 2]
What am I to do?
APAECIDES
What are you to do? Let him be complied with.
EPIDICUS
You are a worthy person, Apaecides.
PERIPHIANES
Hold out your hands then.
EPIDICUS
They don’t at all object; bind them fast together too.
When the job is done, then pronounce your judgment Pronounce your judgment: Arbitraminor seems a better reading than arbitramino..
695
PERIPHIANES
There, that is good.Part of line 696 in the Latin.
EPIDICUS
Now then, to the point, with your enquiries of me; ask me what you please.
PERIPHIANES
In the first place, with what assurance did you presume to say that she who was bought the day before yesterday was my daughter?
EPIDICUS
I chose to; on that assurance.
PERIPHIANES
Do you say so? You chose to?
EPIDICUS
I do say so. Even lay me a wager that she is not the daughter—
PERIPHIANES
A woman whom the mother declares she doesn’t know?
700
EPIDICUS
Then, if she isn’t the daughter of her mother, make me a bet about it, my didrachm to your talent My didrachm to your talent: The moderate odds of three thousand to one..
700
PERIPHIANES
Why, that’s a mere catch. But who is this woman?
EPIDICUS
The mistress of your son, that you may know the whole matter.
PERIPHIANES
Did I not give you the thirty minae for my daughter?
EPIDICUS
I confess that they were given, and that with that money I purchased this Music-girl, your son’s mistress,
